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"Those who feel that like lemmings they are being led over a cliff would be well-advised not to read this book. They may discover that they are right."—Noam Chomsky
“Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank have skillfully smoked out the real Barack Obama . . . the technofascist military strategist disguised as a Nobel Peace Laureate, but owned, operated, and controlled by Wall Street, Corporate America, and the Pentagon.”—Thomas H. Naylor, co-author of Affluenza, Downsizing the USA
“The writers assembled here hit hard, with accuracy, and do not pull punches."—Marcus Rediker, author of The Slave Ship: A Human History
The Barack Obama revolution was over before it started, guttered by the politician’s overweening desire to prove himself to the grandees of the establishment. From there on, other promises proved ever easier to break. Here's the book that dares not let Obama off the hook. It's all here: the compromises, the backstabbing, the same old imperial ambitions. Covering all major "Obummer" categories since he took office, this fast-paced collection will delight the critical and offer food for thought for those contemplating the 2012 electoral circus—and beyond.
Jeffrey St. Clair is co-editor of CounterPunch, author of Born Under a Bad Sky and Been Brown So Long it Looked Green to Me, and co-author of Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs, and the Press.
Joshua Frank is an environmental journalist and co-editor of Red State Rebels: Tales of Grassroots Resistance in the Heartland. His investigative reports and columns appear in CounterPunch, Chicago Sun-Times, Common Dreams, and AlterNet.
"The book is not organized by topic; it’s a random, if chronological, ride through a catalog of catastrophes. But it’s united by the theme of horrendously bad government in the age of Obama. It ignores the mythology and treats Obama based on his actual performance." — David Swanson, FireDogLake
Jeffrey St.Clair: co-editor of Counterpunch,author of Born Under a Bad Sky and Been Brown So Long it Looked Green to Me and co-editor of Red State Rebels: Tales of Grassroots Resistance in the Heartland, Whiteout:The CIA,Drugs,and the Press and Dime's Worth of Difference: Beyond the Lesser of Two Evils.
Joshua Frank: progressive journalist, author of Left Out!: How Liberals Helped Reelect George w.Bush, and co-editor of Red State Rebels: Tales of Grassroots Resistance in the Heartland.
Kevin Alexander Gray is a civil rights organizer in South Carolina. He is also a contributing editor to Black News, was a former president of the South Carolina ACLU, and was Jesse Jackson’s South Carolina campaign manager in 1988. He s author of Waiting for Lightning to Strike.
Ralph Nader: Author of Unsafe at Any Speed, lecturer, attorney, and five-time campaigner for president of the US.
Kathy Kelly is an author, pacifist,and three time Nobel Peace Prize nominee. She s author of Other Lands Have Dreams: From Baghdad to Pekin Prison.
Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion
Edited by Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank
Prelude: Barack Obama, Changeling
By Jeffrey St. Clair
The Birth of the Hero
Kevin Alexander Gray
Obama’s Money Cartel
Pam Martens
Obama and the Special Relationship
Joshua Frank
AIG and the System
Jeffrey St. Clair
Hosing Obama Israeli-Style
Franklin C. Spinney
Orwell in Babylon
Chris Floyd
A Redneck View of Obamarama
Joe Bageant
Obama and the Man in the Hat
Jeffrey St. Clair
The Wall Street White House
Andrew Cockburn
Honduras and the Big Stick
Nikolas Kozloff
The Wolf at Trout Creek
Jeffrey St. Clair
Obama and the Nuclear Rocket
Karl Grossman
Salazar’s Folly: Big Coal’s Big Win
Joshua Frank and Jeffrey St. Clair
The Afghan War Question
Franklin C. Spinney
Kagan’s Disturbing Record
Marjorie Cohn
The State of Black America: from Oscar Grant to Barack Obama
Ron Jacobs
Two Sides of the Same Coin: Obama and Secrecy
Sibel Edmonds
Resurrecting a Failed Industry
Obama and Nuclear Power
Joshua Frank and Jeffrey St. Clair
Torturing the Rule of Law at Gitmo
Chase Madar
How Obama Blew Health Care Reform
Vicente Navarro
Inside Obamanomics
Ismael Hossein-Zadeh
Israel, Obama and the Bomb
Conn Hallinan
Blowback of the Drones
Gary Leupp
The US as Israel’s Enabler in the Middle East
Kathleen Christison
Obama’s War for Oil in Colombia
Daniel Kovalik
Obama’s Immigation Reforms: Neither Humane, Nor Thoughtful
Wajahat Ali
Obama the Minimalist
Patrick Bond
Obama and the Defense Budget
Winslow T. Wheeler
The Novocaine Presidency
Kevin Alexander Gray
Atrocities in Afghanistan
Kathy Kelly
Bradley Manning and the Secret World
John Grant
Eat, Pray, Be Disappointed
Paul Krassner
Obama’s Sellout on Taxes
Michael Hudson
The Student Loan Debt Bubble
Alan Nasser and Kelly Norman
Obama the Deregulationist
Andrew Levine
Obama and Rendition: Exporting Torture
Steve Hendricks
Monsanto’s Minions: the White House, Congress and the Media
Ronnie Cummins
Winding Down Obama
Lihn Dinh
Displacing People for Profit
Christine Shearer and Joshua Frank
The Politics of Assassination: What Has Bin Laden’s Killing Wrought?
Ray McGovern
Attention Deficit Democracy
James Bovard
Much Ado About Nothing: Obama’s Big Immigration Speech
Alvaro Huerta
He Never Promised You a Pot Garden: Obama and Marijuana (TK)
Fred Gardner
Scenes From a Marriage: AmPak Relations
Tariq Ali
War Colleges
Henry Giroux
Obama and Iran: Bushlite (TK)
Sasan Fayezmanesh
Obama and the Nuclear Labs (TK)
Darwin Bond-Graham
Obama and Gitmo (TK)
Andy Worthington
Sexual Politics in the Age of Obama
David Rosen
Friends Without Benefits: Labor and Obama
David Macaray
Obama’s Attack on Social Security and Medicare
Dave Lindorff
Civil Liberties in the Age of Obama (TK)
Bill Quigley
A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: Obama’s Crumbling Economy
Mike Whitney
The Black Backlash Against Obama
Linn Washington, Jr
Coda
Let Them Eat Oil
Jeffrey St. Clair